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Definition of Cercal
1. a. Of or pertaining to the tail.
Definition of Cercal
1. Adjective. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the tail. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cercal
1. cercus [adj] - See also: cercus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cercal
Literary usage of Cercal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"282) has a very hetero- cercal tail and smooth scales. The first dorsal is placed
near the centre of the back, and the mouth is furnished with sharp teeth. ..."
2. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"Instead of having the hetero- cercal type of tail fin which is characteristic of
modern elasmobranchs, it has a still more primitive one, a continuous ..."
3. Life on the Earth: Its Origin and Succession by John Phillips (1860)
"... while the latter may be called Hetero- cercal. ... races are all hetero-
cercal, Mesozoic are mostly ..."
4. Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1907)
"(a) Trias (?)— 2. Sandstones and shales with coal at Ida Bay. 1. Variegated sandstones
with remains of hetero- cercal fishes and amphibians. ..."
5. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"... cercal tail, the cellular air-bladder, the presence of valves in the arterial
bulb, the presence of a spiral valve in the intestine and of a chiasma in ..."
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